Strategic Workforce Planning Assistant Manager - #1677770

Are you a strategic thinker with experience in workforce planning? Join our Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) team to support workforce strategies that align with our organisational goals.

This role involves collaborating with various business units to develop and refine a 5-year workforce plan, ensuring we have the right people with the right skills at the right time. You'll help design and implement workforce planning roadmaps, contributing to a sustainable and effective workforce.

JOB TITLE: Strategic Workforce Planning Assistant Manager

SALARY: £39,825 - £44,250

LOCATION: Bristol & Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Are you a strategic problem solver with a passion for designing the future workforce? Do you have experience in workforce planning and a talent for collaborating with others to deliver impactful results? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) team in our People and Places function (P&P). The purpose of our team is to deliver material impact for the organisation through SWP by partnering across various areas of P&P and the business to mature an effective and robust Strategic Workforce Plan. We'll use SWP to ensure we have the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time to deliver our strategy. This is a developing area which is key to supporting the Group's strategic journey, by creating an agile, engaged future-proof workforce to enable growth, focus and change.

You'll be responsible for supporting and developing aspects of the Group's Strategic Workforce Planning capability and contribute to setting a directional view of the 5-year rolling workforce plan, underpinned by data-driven insight into specific areas of the business, critical roles, and critical skills.

You'll work with business units to refine this view on a cyclical basis, enabling specific and tangible interventions and driving decision-making to allow us to acquire, build, and retain future skills. A key part of this role is to support the Group's strategic strategy by working with business leaders to design and operationalise workforce planning roadmaps to build a sustainable, effective workforce for the short, medium, and long term.

You'll work collaboratively across the People and Places team and wider Group to drive broad planning and intelligence around how, when, and where skills will be required and sourced.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in Strategic Workforce Planning: Support the development of data-driven Strategic Workforce Planning models to identify future skills and align with our location strategy.
• Support Stakeholder Collaboration: Help develop relationships with business stakeholders and key partners across the Group to identify and quantify current and future role and skill needs.
• Promote SWP: Assist in fostering an organisation-wide passion for Strategic Workforce Planning, inspiring others to become part of the journey and vision.
• Contribute to Long-Term Plans: Aid in developing and implementing long-term plans to acquire and develop required skills and capabilities, supporting the deployment of agreed change projects.
• Collaborate with Centres of Excellence: Work with the Centres of Excellence to inform and design recruitment, talent management, and reskilling plans, contributing to the Group's overall Employee Value Proposition (EVP).
• Support Future Workplace Insight: Assist in developing insights ensuring the organisation has a presence in key locations for talent now and in the future.
• Prioritize Continuous Growth: Engage in personal development to ensure optimal performance.
• Stay Updated on External Insights: Keep abreast of external developments in Strategic Workforce Planning models and Talent Market Insights to support the delivery of our strategy

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to problem solve, generate hypotheses, structure problems, and generate robust conclusions and strategic objectives.
• Communication & Storytelling: Impactful written and verbal communication skills, particularly in producing written outputs for a senior audience.
• Data Analytics: Ability to review and perform quality analysis, including resourcefulness in sourcing and validating data, to present recommendations.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and maintain positive relationships with a range of people and business areas using commercial understanding and excellent communication skills.
• Programme Support: Ability to assist in developing project plans and supporting the delivery of required outputs at pace.
• Collaboration: Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives, creating a strong network and good working environment within the team and the organisation.
• Action-Oriented: Proactive in taking initiative and driving tasks to completion.
• Organisational Awareness: Understanding of organisational dynamics and how to navigate them effectively.

If you're passionate about workforce strategy and thrive in a collaborative role, this is the perfect opportunity to make a meaningful impact. Take the next step in your career - join us and help shape the workforce of tomorrow!

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.